Quotes about Faulkner

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels — only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels — only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. — William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. — William Faulkner
Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. — Kelli Jae Baeli, Don't Fall in Love With Your Words: Fall in Love With Your Craft
Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. — Kelli Jae Baeli, Don't Fall in Love With Your Words: Fall in Love With Your Craft
Civilization begins with distillation — William Faulkner
Civilization begins with distillation — William Faulkner
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless — someone will always buy him drink or weapons.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless — someone will always buy him drink or weapons.
I think the best way I can put it,” Tom summarized, “was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Un — C.G. Faulkner, Unreconstructed
I think the best way I can put it,” Tom summarized, “was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Un — C.G. Faulkner, Unreconstructed
I say money has no value — it's just the way you spend it.
I say money has no value — it's just the way you spend it.
If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He — Arinn Dembo
If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He — Arinn Dembo
[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love — William Faulkner
[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love — William Faulkner
Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparentl — William Faulkner
Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparentl — William Faulkner
Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame. — William Faulkner
Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame. — William Faulkner
Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame. — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame. — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you — William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you — William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke
Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke
The displacement of water is equal to the something of something. — William Faulkner
The displacement of water is equal to the something of something. — William Faulkner